Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Lakhipur Vidhan Sabha Constituency (Bengali: লক্ষীপুর বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 126 assembly constituency in Cachar district in the North-East Indian state of Assam.

Lakhipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Lakhipur
Location in Assam
Lakhipur
Lakhipur (India)
Coordinates: 24.8°N 93.02°E / 24.8; 93.02
Country India
StateAssam
DistrictCachar
Constituency No13
Vidhan Sabha constituencyLakhipur

Overview[1]

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No.13 Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Lakhipur thana (excluding circle Nos. 44, 45 and 46) and Boaligrant in circle No. 54 (Part) in Sonai thana in Silchar Subdivision.
Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 2 Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency).
The total voters of the Lakhipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is 1,37,415. this constituency is mainly tea worker dominated constituency. The two main factors of this constituency in every election are tea workers working in 46,000 strong tea estates and Hindi-speaking community. Language has been a poll plank here for a long time, which is used by different political parties from time to time to garner votes of specific communities.

Member of Legislative Assembly [2][3]

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Lakhipur assembly elections conducted so far.

Year Winner Party Votes Runner Up Party Votes
2014
(By Polls)		Rajdeep GoalaINC51975Sanjay Kumar ThakurBJP29322
2011Dinesh Prasad GoalaINC51975Reena SinghBJP21897
2006Dinesh Prasad GoalaINC53052Reena SinghBJP22385
2001Dinesh Prasad GoalaINC36570Reena SinghBJP26815
1996Dinesh Prosad GoalaINC45961Audesh Kumar SinghBJP22533
1991Dinesh Prasad GoalaINC18538Debendra SinghaBJP13715
1985Dinesh Prasad GoalaINC21910Kshiro Gopal MisraIND13985
1983Dinesh Prasad GoalaIND10564Rakesh Chandra PaulIND9523
1978Kazi Kutub Uddin AhmedIND11258Rakesh Chandra PaulIND9628
1967M.C. SinghaINC14379N. HudaIND8317
1962Ram Prasad ChoubeyINC14916Gour SinghIND5267
1957Ram Prasad ChoubeyINC
1951Raghunandan DhubiINC23634Mohammad AliIND5941
1951Ram Prasad ChaubeyINC22911Manindra Ch. Barman RajkowarCPI5793

Election results

2014 results[4]

[5]

Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2014(By Election): Lakhipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC RAJDEEP GOALA 39159 41.98
BJP SANJAY KUMAR THAKUR 29322 31.43
AIUDF Mukesh Pandey 22590 24.22
SUCI(C) JOY SINGH CHATRI 1640 1.76
Independent Nazim Uddin Mazumder 578 0.62
NOTA None of the Above 1070 1.15
Majority 9837 10.54
Turnout 93289 67.89
INC gain from BJP Swing

2016 results[6]
Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2016: Lakhipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Rajdeep Goala 60,135 55.12
BJP Thoiba Singha 35,768 32.78
JD(U) Lalthomlien Hmar 8,923 8.18
SUCI(C) Joy Singh Chatri 1,346 1.23
Independent Sanjay Kumar Thakur 741 0.68
Independent Ajmal Hussain Laskar 660 0.6
Independent Ujjal Dhubi 456 0.42
NOTA None of the Above 1309 1.2
Majority 24,367 22.33
Turnout 1,09.104 76.16
INC hold Swing

See also

References
  1. "DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. "Sitting and previous MLAs from Lakhipur Assembly Constituency". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  3. "List of winning MLA's from Lakhipur Till Date". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  4. "Lakhipur Assembly (Vidha Sabha) Constituency – Bye Elections 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  5. http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS0312.htm?ac=12
  6. "Lakhipur (Assam) Election Results 2016". elections.in. Retrieved 1 July 2016.


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